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Tonypandy

Polluted by sewage 852 times in 2025 lasting 3,291 hours

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Totals for Tonypandy in 2025

16 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
852 sewage dumps
3,291 hours duration
That's 4.57 months. On average 2.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Tonypandy in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this place all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhondda Fawr Station Rd CSO, Dinas, Porth 120 919 95.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Clydach A CSO at Clydach Vale Davies Street 122 709 98.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Fawr Rear of Richards Terrace CSO 50 562 89.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhondda Fawr River GLANNANT ST/DINAS ROAD CSO 85 318 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhondda Fawr CSO O/S Welcome Inn, Tylacelyn Rd, Penygraig 82 215 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Clydach Railway Terrace CSO, Clydach Vale 60 166 97.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhondda R - Source To Conf River Rhondda Fach Penygraig Rd CSO, Penygraig 75 137 99
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Rhondda Llwynypia Rd CSO, Tonypandy 73 105 99.1
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhondda River Fawr Llwynypia SPS 45 57 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhondda Fawr CSO at Penycraig - Tylacelyn Road 42 27 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhondda River Via A Culvert Old Brithweunydd Road CSO, Tonypandy 38 26 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Nant Clydach CSO at Tonypandy, Rear of De Winton St 11 17 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhondda Fawr CSO OFF YNYSCYNON ROAD TREALAW 16 15 99.4
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhondda R - Source To Conf River Rhondda Fach Penygraig Nantgwyn St/Hill St Jn CSO 24 7 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Ely CSO at Penrhiwfer Ashdale Rd CSO, rear of No23 6 4 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhondda Fawr CSO at 136 Tyntyla Road, Tonypandy 3 0 99.8

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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